Saudi Arabia has executed two Pakistani citizens who were arrested on the charges of drug smuggling. This is the first time the oil-rich nation has executed individuals guilty of drug-related offenses after the country’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) banned the use of the death penalty for ...

India was urged to take a tougher stand on sexual violence and religious discrimination and ratify the torture convention, as countries raked over its human rights record at the UN Thursday. New Delhi insisted it appreciated the role played by human rights defenders and said it would only impose ...

So much for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s “New Pakistan.” Faced with growing discontent among his own lawmakers and allies, Khan told the president to dissolve parliament and called for fresh elections link after a hotly anticipated no confidence vote against him was abruptly ...

Ordering distribution of property among the heirs of late Habibullah, a resident of Swat, as per the laws of Islamic Shariah, Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ruled that no court or a Jirga could change the Shariah laws governing the distribution of property among ...

TEHRAN – An Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian, known for his rage against western medicine, has posted that interacting with people who receive the Covid-19 vaccine will makes you homosexual. Posting on social media platform Telegram on Tuesday, he wrote "Don't go near those who have ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has ordered a U.S.-based website propagating the faith of Pakistan's minority Ahmadis shut down over allegedly blasphemous content, one of the site's managers said Thursday. Harris Zafar said Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority earlier this month issued a legal notice ...

ISLAMABAD-Brussels,The European Union "strongly opposes" the US decision to resume federal executions after 17 years, an EU spokesman said Friday.The US government decided almost a year ago to resume the practice of federal executions, the last of which was carried out in 2003.  American ...

*ISLAMABAD - **Pakistani Parliament seek death penalty for the Child Rapists.* *The National Assembly approved a resolution seeking the death penalty for child rapists.* Minister of State Ali Muhammad Khan moved the resolution in the assembly on Friday. He told fellow MNAs that Prime Minister ...

LAHORE - New developments reported over former President Pervaiz Musharraf death penalty case in Lahore High Court. The Lahore High Court has been pleaded for reviewing its decision of striking down complaint, trial and special court that tried and awarded death penalty to former military ruler ...

ISLAMABAD - Former President Pervaiz Musharraf faces an unexpected setback from the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Supreme Court (SC) has returned a petition filed by former president Pervez Musharraf against a special court's verdict in handing him death sentence under Article 6 of the ...